up and

However, all of a sudden she heard a sort of a knocking low down on the door. She upped and oped it, and what should she see but a small little black thing with a long tail.

1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 3

I knowed then why she up and went there, because Ada told me.

1932, Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road, page 168

The dog up and died, he up and died And after twenty years he still grieves

1968, Jerry Jeff Walker, “Mr. Bojangles”

When he saw me hand and face, he up and goes for the head's office before I can say 'struth' and, by the time I can get after him, it's too late.

1990, Archie Weller, “Johnny Blue”, in Going Home: Stories, page 41

a friend of mine who, within ten days, said 'I've had enough of this' and he just up and died. It seemed he wished himself to die.

2001, Charles G. Roland, Long Night's Journey into Day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941 ..., page 193